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(1966). American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 26:155-157

Discussion

Melvin Boigon, M.D.

We are indebted to Dr. Maslow for his contribution to this symposium. Using the specific symbol of the scientist, he has stated the dilemma of 20th-century man and suggested the solution for this dilemma. He puts in the foreground the questions of motivation and direction, whose origins, he assumes, are in our emotional life.

In earlier periods man lived with a feeling of optimism and hope for certainty. It was a period when man believed in himself and the work of his hands. Man had faith in the power of reason and science. He trusted his gods, and conceived his own capacity for growth as endless, and his widening horizons as limitless. Man imagined that ignorance alone stood in the way of his desire for ordering and making harmonious human nature and the universe so that “Peace on earth, goodwill toward men” would be a perpetual state.

Knowledge has spread. Science has provided for Western man undreamed of comfort and the promise of a vastly better life for increasing nu

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